Re: [bomp] Re: Bands You Listened To Religiously, But Hate Today

[Mark Owen <markojerry@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think that first Heaven 17 album is pretty good as
far as that style goes, but I haven't thrown it on for
a while.  Early Smiths and Cure are in the same
category for me.  Groups I still like a lot and may
actually throw on from time to time would be Echo and
the Bunnymen, Siouxsie (esp. the McGeoch years), and
New Order up through Blue Monday.

Getting back to an earlier part of the thread, I love
the two Specials albums, those are in my top 50 (or
whatever) for sure, along with the first couple
Pretenders albums (equating them time-wise only).  I
don't blame third-wave ska on them, and even if I did,
I'd still love those records.  Then again, I love
Kraftwerk and don't have much use for most of the
genres they spawned.

-Mark

PS "Just Can't Get Enough" was a winner too.

np Schlagers!

--- Mark Robinson <wytches@lycos.com> wrote:

> 
> OK...the 80's.
> 
> Heaven 17 - I am not sure what I was thinking. 
> Maybe some of the early stuff as the BEF, but that
> blue-eyed soul posturing with a poorly sampled horn
> section got stale fast.
> 
> Thompson Twins  I have no excuse.  I throw myself
> on mercy of the court.  Maybe it was the snappy
> tunes, effective use of percussion, dynamic layering
> of synthesizers or perhaps it was the hair.  Ill
> take hair for two hundred.
> 
> Ministry - First album was about a vacuous as
> possible.  I remember some goofy thing about "Being
> An Effigy".  To be honest the later stuff just grew
> tiring.  The whole bass/guitar grind fell into the
> disco/rap trap.  No future for the genre.
> 
> Bowie  Face it, in the eighties he sucked.  I saw
> him for the Glass Spider Tour and am not sure if I
> was more embarrassed to have shelled out the shekels
> or for Bowie descending from a large glowing spider
> that looked more like a translucent purple squid.  I
> thought the stuff in the nineties got back on track
> but never saw him live again.  My god, that album
> Tonight is unlistenable.  
> 
> Simple Minds  EEEEEK.  I just dont know.  Heaven
> 17 and Simple Minds.  It has not stood the test of
> time.  Maybe it was like Reuniteback then you could
> swill the stuff and get a vicious buzz, but it
> doesnt age well, tastes like crap and cost ya a ton
> of brain cells which you can ill afford.
> 
> Depeche Mode  By 1985 I would cringe whenever I
> heard a bass sequencer and the hand-clap-whip-snap
> on the 1st beat and the ever-present deadpan vocals.
>   And yet, I can still listen to Gary Numan.  Maybe
> the Reunite gouged away more brain cells than I
> thought.  
> 
> As for eighties groups that I still listen to. 
> Smiths, Gang Of Four, New Order, Cure, OMD.
> 
> 
> 
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